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If you’ve experienced a breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, you know how scary and traumatic it can be. As a Firefly Sisterhood Mentor, you’ll provide one-to-one emotional support to people affected by breast cancer. Our mentors are volunteers who are breast cancer survivors and thrivers that provide light and hope by listening and sharing their experiences.
The process to becoming a mentor in 3 easy steps:
Participate in a phone call with a Firefly Sisterhood staff member, we’ll ask questions about your your diagnosis details and treatment plan, as well as background and your life.
All Firefly Mentors are breast cancer survivors and thrivers that volunteer their time to support someone facing a breast cancer diagnosis. They’ve completed a training program developed for Firefly Sisterhood to help them best use their personal breast cancer experience to comfort and guide those they will be mentoring.
Yes, anything shared with Firefly Sisterhood will never be shared with anyone outside of the matching process.
Once we complete your mentor profile and you complete a New Mentor training session, you will be added to our matching database. You will be contacted as soon as we have a support seeker whose experience is compatible with yours.
It’s up to the Support Seeker and the Firefly Mentor to determine how frequently they would like to connect. The match may result in a few phone calls, or could continue for months during treatment. Communication may be through phone calls, texts, or perhaps even meeting in person.
Our primary goal is to create meaningful one-to-one connections; however, we regularly organize social and educational gatherings to provide support and friendship within our community.
Because we provide support coast to coast, your matches may be living anywhere as long as they are able to commuicate in a way that works for both the mentor and support seeker. This can include email, phone calls, instant messaging, FaceTime, etc. A support seeker can indicate a preference for a local match and we will do our best to accommodate this request.